Access Restriction Bypass Affecting squid package, versions [3.0,3.5.28][4.0,4.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.87% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SQUID-2370866
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-12523  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade squid to version 4.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.9. When handling a URN request, a corresponding HTTP request is made. This HTTP request doesn't go through the access checks that incoming HTTP requests go through. This causes all access checks to be bypassed and allows access to restricted HTTP servers, e.g., an attacker can connect to HTTP servers that only listen on localhost.

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